Frontier Airlines adds three new destinations from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Frontier Airlines is adding three new destinations from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, bringing to 14 the number of markets the low-fare airline has added to its service at the Cleveland airport this year.

The airport destinations added are to cities important to business travelers — Washington Dulles International Airport, New York City’s LaGuardia Airport and O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

And if passengers book today, Monday, June 16, they can get introductory fares as low as $19 one-way and $38 roundtrip for travel that begins this fall. To receive the low fares, travelers must book their travel at www.FlyFrontier.com.

Frontier continues to fill the void left with United Airlines’ decision to close its Cleveland hub.

At a news conference Monday morning at a Frontier gate at Hopkins, Frontier senior vice president Daniel Schurz said the airline has been pleased by the response of Cleveland travelers.

“We continue to see great promise in this market,” he told reporters, city officials and passengers waiting to board Frontier flights. “You keep buying tickets to fly Frontier and we’ll fly more service.”

Joe Roman, president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, was at the news conference to applaud the airline’s efforts to fill gaps in service, especially the kind of direct service to major metropolitan areas important to business travelers. GCP sought to promote travel on United Airlines in an unsuccessful effort keep the United hub because of the importance of frequent direct service to business travelers.

Roman said he believes there still are gaps in service. He said GCP will survey businesses this summer to see what destinations are still not well served.

“I’m comfortable with the trend we’re seeing,” he told Crain’s. “But we want to continue to see this (kind of expansion); we’re going to keep making sure the airport, the city and the airlines know where the business community needs to get.”

Beginning Oct. 1, Frontier will fly four days a week — Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday — to Dulles and Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday to O’Hare. Beginning Oct. 26, Frontier will fly every day except Saturday to LaGuardia.

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